Steampunk

What is steampunk, you ask? I consulted a noted expert in the field, who responded "Steampunk is science-fiction set in the past, usually in the Victorian era, and all the technological developments of our time have been recreated using steam power and clockwork." The noted expert then pointed out that he was no longer into steampunk, and now prefers video games and mythology. That's the fault of the blog author - a ten month delay between cake creation and posting may lead to cakes describing enthusiasms long since past. He will be 11 in a couple of months, closer to college than to cradle, and I'm reminded that even glancing away for a moment, I look back and see a bigger, different, more grown up kid. That being said, Lisa did a rather amazing job of coming up with a clockwork cake. She made the gears out of gum paste and then painted them to look metallic, and the cake body is designed to look like a wooden casket.